There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2738 BC was a common year starting on a Friday, just like 2835 BC, 2824 BC, 2818 BC, 2807 BC, 2796 BC, 2790 BC, 2779 BC, 2768 BC, 2762 BC, 2751 BC in the century before it and 2734 BC, 2723 BC, 2712 BC, 2706 BC, 2701 BC, 2695 BC, 2684 BC, 2678 BC, 2667 BC, 2656 BC, 2650 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.